After coming into the season with three consecutive victories, the Alvirne High School Girls Basketball team went in the opposite direct as they started the new year, but a strong win at Spaulding High School put the team at 4-3 as the week came to a close.
The Lady Broncos suffered consecutive losses against Pinkerton, Nashua South and Portsmouth at home before righting the ship against the Red Raiders at Spaulding High.
On Saturday, Jan. 9, Alvirne traveled to Rochester, where they were able come away with a 66-29 win on the now 1-6 Red Raiders.
Alvirne had their second highest scoring total of the year and Spaulding was playing from behind the whole game.
The Broncos went ahead 15-10 to start the game in the first. They held the Raiders to just four-points in the second while scoring 25 of their own and went into the break with a 40-14 lead.
Alvirne held SHS to single-digit scoring in the final two quarters for the 37-point win.
Junior guard Lexi Floyd had a big game, leading the team in scoring with 22-points. Floyd had six, three-pointers and two, two-pointers.
Sophomore forward Courtney Anderson put up 15-points and was 4-6 at the foul line.
Junior guard Taylor Small had nine points in the game.
Izzy Haven-Tate and Halie Christman both added five-points to the team tally.
Before traveling to the seacoast, the AHS girls had home games against Nashua South and Portsmouth.
The AHS squad started their week on Tuesday, Jan. 7, in the first game of a double-header with Nashua South High School, where they came up three-points shy of a victory in a 56-53 loss.
The Broncos had a one-point lead at the half and also after three quarters, but were not able to outscore the Purple Panthers in the home stretch.
Anderson led the Broncos with 17-points with Floyd and senior forward Ella Hartson each getting nine-points. Senior guard Avery Willard finished with six-points.
Two days later, in a rare Thursday night game, on Jan. 9, the Alvirne girls had two unproductive quarters, leading to a 33-42 defeat at the hands of the Portsmouth Clippers.
The team began the game with a 14-10 lead after one, but a 2-17 second quarter led to a 27-16 Clippers lead at the half.
Coming out of the break, a five-point third coupled with a 12-point fourth wasn’t nearly enough for the Broncos to catch up.
Anderson was the lead scorer again, getting 16-points, mostly from driving to the basket. The sophomore was three-of-five at the foul line and had one, three-pointer.
Hartson had two three-pointers and a bucket for eight-points and Floyd tallied five-points.
The Lady Broncos had a six-day break after their busy three-game week. Alvirne will head to neighboring Londonderry on Friday night, Jan. 17, to play the undefeated Lancers starting at 7 p.m.